DOKTORSKE STUDIJE U REPUBLICI SRPSKOJ - komparativna analiza i perspektive -
DOCTORAL STUDIES IN THE REPUBLIC OF SRPSKA - Comparative analisys and perspectives -

Summary/Abstract: Research has shown that the PhD studies became one of the strategic development factors and therefore it must be talked of institutional strategy of creating high-profile personnel capable to meet the civilization needs of time. Uplift of doctoral studies at a higher strategic level shifted the overall system of evaluation of scientific achievements from the hands of professors / mentors and relevant university departments at the state level bodies for science and education, on the one hand and inter-university bodies such as the Rectors Conference and the Association of Experts of individual scientific fields, on the other hand. The main challenges of doctoral studies in Europe today have inherited structures and forms of university education, regulatory mechanisms, the status of a doctoral student, the funding of doctoral studies, the increase in the number of students at doctoral studies, the duration of doctoral studies, monitoring and controlling the quality of doctoral studies mobility and international exchange, recognition of titles and degrees of education, new trends of professional doctorates, mobility in the academic career and readiness for change: strength and forms. The main problems of doctoral studies in the Republic of Srpska highlight the lack of consistent cooperation between universities, the lack of stronger links between private and public universities, a large dispersion of personnel at eight existing universities, significant presence of visiting experts and professors, unwillingness to change within old staff, lack of cooperation between state regulatory bodies and academic communities, poor support for doctoral studies through funding for higher education, under-utilization of young professionals with master and PhD degree from foreign countries, lack of connection of the academic community to interested businesses, the outflow of high-quality personnel to other countries, the lack of a clear conception and agreed inter-university platform for the organization of doctoral studies in the Republic of Srpska, unfinished process of accreditation of higher education institutions in the Republic of Srpska and Bosnia and Herzegovina, the different approaches and perceptions of the licensing and accreditation process from the academic community, overproduction of some high educational profiles and lack of other and lack of objectivity, with the still predominant subjective approach. In order to overcome many deficiencies, given that we are in one of the largest higher education reform in Europe, the Republic of Srpska has only one way to organize PhD studies, and that is through the "Integrated PhD programs." Integrated PhD studies presume that at the national level on the one hand and universities on the other hand, Ph.D. programs are made with the expected profile of staff who will have sufficient academic and professional career mobility. The program should be shared by two public and six private universities, and the mutual relations within the implementation of doctoral studies would be regulated with contracts between the institutions that carry them out.

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